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Morning, Rosalind!
That was quite a trip down Nostalgia Lane for you! what a lovely day! How great to find the 'climbing' tree still standing!
How old are your grandchildren?
We have three grandsons (7 nearly 8, 5 and 3), and one granddaughter(5) - but she's much 'tougher' than the boys and can run rings round them when it comes to climbing and playing rough- and -tumble games! She's a real tom-boy ( although she's extremely pretty!)
It's the two elder boys who are staying with us.

The boy is 5 and the little girl, 2. She is tough, too, and runs after her brother.
It is an oak tree in a country park so I hope it will still be there for them to show their children and run/bike up and down the sides of the ochre pits. We can pass on that kind of enjoyment to set against TVs and computers- though they have those in reception classes now. I don't mind, I just think it's good to have outdoor stuff as well.
I'm sure your daughter is very grateful for the break. How did you get the boys to play board games? I'm going to buy a tent when they come down in price at the end of the summer as I have a place we can go to pitch it. No water or loos, though!

Great ages, aren't they?! still young enough to be 'innocent' - childhood seems to pass so quickly these days.
I have been playing the easier board games , like Snakes and Ladders and Ludo with the eldest grandson since he was "but a nipper"! all the boys play now, even the 3 year old can manage Snakes and Ladders.
Are you thinking of going camping as in staying in the tent overnight? if, so , you are far braver than I!

I am about to order Snakes and Ladders!
The family want to stay overnight, not sure about me. But we used to camp as a family a long time ago. I remember staying in a really wild place in Scotland (the name Melon sticks in my mind, but seems unlikely), close to the sea. A gale got up and all of us (except my mother) spent the rest of the night hanging onto the frame of the tent.
I believe you are kept awake by muntjac deer barking where I'm thinking of the family camping.

Rosalind, I usedto go to Wester Ross.
That is wild!
Two places there were Mellon Udrigle and Mellon Charles?

You never know, Rusty and Ros, you may have passed each other on the moors?!
It's like Chris, jazzy and I discovering that we'd all been to the same haunts in and around Swanage at the same time! Chris even visited a pub just up the road from where we were staying!

Elle, so that was Rosalind?
Not too far off, is the abandoned village of Slaggan.
It is reached by an unmade road.
The road stops there at a beaufiful beach on the shores of Loch Ewe. Very deep water.
I remember a wren nesting in one of abandoned cottages.
Happy days!

Yes, thanks Rusty, that sounds like the place. My father loved wild and untamed Scotland, my mother not so much. I can't remember more than I wrote before, except that I think we had the sea within sight of the tent. I don't think there was anyone else around, but on the other hand we usually went to a campsite even if it was a "wild" one. And Dad had to use the work's waysgoose (a new word, Rusty?), the last two weeks of July.
I've just heard we are going to borrow a tent with black outs (for the children) and sleep in my wood for a night soon. Wow

Rosalind, yes, waysgoose is new to me!
It sounds to me as if you were at Mellon Udrigle beach at Laide. Aultbea being the only place of any size nearby. By that I mean it had a grocer cum Johnny-everything shop.
Mellon Charles is more remote.
At Mellon Udrigle there would be great views of the mountains and the Summer Isles.
A tent with black outs is new to me too!
Sounds great though.
Watch out for bears!

Hello Everyone !

Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday.

Rosalind, I'll team up with Rusty and ask you what a tent with black outs ? (Mind you I know nothing about camping)